Statue of VajraSarasvati or Magzor
Gyalmo, ‘Queen of the Weapon Army’, an enlightened protector deity in Lamaism.
She is a fierce form of
the Hindu
goddess Sarasvati, who in Mahayana Buddhism
regarded as the goddess of education, music and poetry, and the consort of
Manjushri,
known in Chinaas Wen Shu
(fig.).
She
is portrayed with a dark blue complexion, one face and two hands, holding
aloft a scepter in one hand and a kapala, i.e. a cup made from a human skull
(fig.),
in the other.

In
this ferocious
appearance, she is portrayed with a dark blue
complexion, one face and two hands, and holding aloft a
stick in one hand and a kapala, i.e. a cup made from a human skull,
in the other. She wears a necklace of severed human
heads and is riding a donkey.